That's an unfair comparison. It was at historically low levels of job growth because the US was experiencing below average unemployment rates to begin with (ie it's tough to grow additional jobs when people are employed - you will always have a certain percentage of unemployed just because of friction). You can chart/see historicals here: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_i...

If unemployment fell much further there would be significant concern over inflation (because the only way to fill jobs would be to keep increasing pay for the same amount of work).